[1] Then she taught in Watsonville, California (1910–1911) and studied watercolor painting with L. Minnie Pardee for a year.
[6] From 1923–1938 she maintained a studio in Pacific Grove, California and specialized in coastal scenes and the fishing industry around Monterey.
Considered an Impressionist,[4] she chose vivid colors and used loose horizontal brush strokes.
After moving to Oakland, California, she became an aircraft mechanic and inspector at the Alameda Naval Air Station.
[1] Her work was thought to be lost until 1979 when trunks were "rediscovered" at the family ranch and found to contain many surviving artworks.